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The chief information officer of one of Ireland's largest academic hospitals has told its board that the IT department does not need any additional funding and will be able to cut its overall budget by £500,000 this year.

Health minister Simon Burns has said that the Department of Health is targeting ICT products and services worth £6m in order to make reductions in public expenditure.

The Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust has streamlined its breast imaging system to fully integrate it with the National Breast Screening Service system.

NHS Direct is to pilot its first web and telephone-based support service targeted at patients at risk of developing long term conditions.

Scarborough and North Yorkshire NHS Care Trust has become the first in the UK to go-live with a discharge plan and decision support product from RealTime Health.

This month's industry round-up reports on contract signings and industry awards; with iSoft and Carestream Health both receiving Frost and Sullivan recognition for key products.

NHS Redbridge is aiming to reduce costs while reorganising services with the help of a risk stratification tool.

The Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust has developed a fully auditable set of guidelines and actions for clinicians within its Cerner Millennium electronic patient record system.

Guernsey has gone live with the next stages of its multi-million pound electronic health and social care record by implementing specialist oncology software.

Healthcare IT system suppliers INPS and EMIS have announced that they have formed a 50:50 joint venture to implement an interoperability gateway.

NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson has admitted that the Treasury is concerned abut the government's plans to hand secondary care commissioning to GPs.

NHS Bury has yet to sign-off on its deployment of Lorenzo Regional Care Release 1.9, seven months after the system went live at the north west primary care trust.

The chair of Intellect's Health Group, Jeremy Nettle, has told E-Health Insider that he expects increased investment in health IT in response to the £20 billion of efficiency savings that need to be made by the NHS.

Health secretary Andrew Lansley has warned the NHS it cannot expect the funding increases it has enjoyed in the recent past and it will not be protected from change.

Health secretary Andrew Lansley has warned the NHS it cannot expect the funding increases it has enjoyed in the recent past and it will not be protected from change.

System C has been named Microsoft's public sector health partner of the year, picked from over 3,000 entries from across the world

First DataBank and System C Healthcare have signed a new contract to fully integrate First DataBank's Multilex Drug Data File into System C's Medway patient administration system.

Microsoft has launched its personal health record platform in the UK on the Health and Lifestyle channel of the MSN network.

Health secretary Andrew Lansley has scrapped some key NHS performance targets and told the health service it must save at least £222m in management costs this year.

InterSystems is set to be confirmed as the winner of a national contract to provide a new laboratory information management system across Wales.